# Changelog of YouTube Channel Email Scraper: Business Emails, Phones, Socials (`apivault_labs/youtube-channel-business-email-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apivault\_labs/youtube-channel-business-email-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/apivault\_labs/youtube-channel-business-email-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.13

- Simpler setup: proxying is now handled automatically. The manual proxy options were removed — the Actor manages connections for you.

### 1.12

- Precise subscriber count is now more reliable across all channels in a run (added automatic retries for transient lookup failures).

### 1.11

- Precise subscriber count now works reliably from the cloud (previously the exact count could fall back to YouTube's rounded number on some runs).

### 1.10

- More reliable precise subscriber count, with a per-channel note in the run log showing whether it was applied.

### 1.9

- Precise subscriber count: the `subscribers` field now reports an exact live subscriber count instead of YouTube's rounded number (e.g. 21,143,422 instead of 21.1M). The rounded value is still available in `subscribersRounded`. Toggle off with "Precise subscriber count" if you only need the rounded number.

### 1.8

- Logs now show exactly which channel was skipped and why (below minimum subscribers, no email, or no named/business email), so filtered results are no longer a mystery.

### 1.7

- Deep email lookup is now ON by default for maximum email discovery. Turn it off if you prefer cheaper, faster runs.

### 1.6

- Deep email lookup now works out of the box — no extra configuration needed. Just toggle it on.

### 1.5

- Fix: emails are now deduplicated case-insensitively, so the same address returned in different letter casing (e.g. business@mkbhd.com vs business@MKBHD.com) is no longer listed twice.

### 1.4

- Pay-per-result billing: you are now charged once per delivered channel record only. Failed fetches, invalid channels, and filtered-out channels are never charged.

### 1.3

- Speed: email discovery steps now run in parallel per channel (were sequential), so a slow website no longer delays the rest of the lookup.
- Speed: external links are checked concurrently, capped at 5 links, with a shorter per-probe timeout and smart /contact + /about fallbacks. Cuts worst-case runtime on slow creator sites.

### 1.2

- Reliability overhaul of deep email lookup and a much smaller, faster Actor image.

### 1.1

- Deep email lookup rewrite: skips channels that clearly won't match early (saves time), caches per-run state, and retries transient failures for better reliability.

### 1.0.1

- Fix: bypass EU cookie-consent redirect so channel data is returned instead of an empty consent page.
- Fix: faster per-channel parsing (dropped from several seconds to ~0.3s).
- Fix: hard per-request timeout so a slow/stalled fetch can no longer stall the whole run.

### 1.0 (initial release)

- Extract public business emails from YouTube channel About pages (no login, no API key, no CAPTCHA).
- Full channel intelligence per channel: subscribers, video count, total views, country, language, niche, tags, verification, family-safe flag.
- Social links extraction (Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Twitch, LinkedIn, Patreon).
- Recent videos + activity metrics (avg recent views, engagement rate, last upload, isActive).
- Derived metrics: channel age, avg views/day, avg views/video, subs/video.
- 0-100 outreach score with monetization signals (membership, merch).
- Input flexibility: URLs, @handles, bare handles, channel IDs.
- Filters: onlyWithEmail, minSubscribers.
- Optional Apify proxy support for large runs.